Like its stablemate, the new Pro has a unibody aluminum chassis, available in silver and space gray - a first for the Pro series. The new MacBook Pro is a clear departure from the previous generation, but it does look an awful lot like the more recent 12-inch MacBook. Factor in a narrower selection of ports (almost guaranteeing you'll need a dongle) and the MacBook Pro isn't just a thinner or different-looking Mac it's one you're meant to use differently. Most notably, they mark the debut of yet another newfangled thing: the 'Touch Bar,' an OLED strip above the keyboard that replaces the age-old Function bar with touch-sensitive controls that change depending on the app you're using.

Both of the new 13- and 15-inch Pros are thinner, lighter and more compact than their predecessors, with faster graphics and disk performance, a brighter, more colorful screen, Touch ID fingerprint sensor and louder, clearer audio. Thanks to that stale design and often neglected internals, many Mac fans out there have delayed upgrading - surely a new model was just around the corner, right? Though we're not sure you all were able to hold off until now, Apple has finally updated its MacBook Pro line, and it's not just a processor refresh either. Though Apple has occasionally refreshed the processors (the last time being all the way back in early 2015), that design from 2012 is virtually the same one we've been reviewing all these years. It weighed 4.46 pounds (a heavyweight by today's standards) and it ushered in some newfangled thing called the Retina display. The last time Engadget reviewed a brand-new MacBook Pro design was in June of 2012.

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